I personaly believe teachers dispise anything that makes things even the slightest bit easier. They associate ease with laziness, or avoidance of "work".
It only happens to be a coincidence that computer technology is the only thing to ever come around that made education easier (except maybe, what, the trapper keeper?? ;)
Let me recall past teaching indescretions:
-Banning calculators for YEARS
-I wasn't allowed to type (aka wordprocess) my homework/reports for years (god forbid I spell check)
-Even before the internet, I got in trouble for listing a CDROM Encyclopedia as a reference.
-My CS professor got agitated because I wanted to write my code on my machine, in my dorm, using faster better notepad type programs, instead of using the slow command-line based CS department terminals, or having to schlep to a lab.
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Date: 2002-05-06 09:08 am (UTC)It only happens to be a coincidence that computer technology is the only thing to ever come around that made education easier (except maybe, what, the trapper keeper?? ;)
Let me recall past teaching indescretions:
-Banning calculators for YEARS
-I wasn't allowed to type (aka wordprocess) my homework/reports for years (god forbid I spell check)
-Even before the internet, I got in trouble for listing a CDROM Encyclopedia as a reference.
-My CS professor got agitated because I wanted to write my code on my machine, in my dorm, using faster better notepad type programs, instead of using the slow command-line based CS department terminals, or having to schlep to a lab.